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: Chris Preovolos

If you thought New York’s Lower East Side is gritty now, see how Stephen Soderbergh’s upcoming miniseries “The Knick,” starring Clive Owen, is transforming Orchard Street into the bad old days of the 1910s. According to Cinemax: Set in downtown New York in 1900, THE KNICK centers on Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses …

It has been over 50 years since the literary lawyer Atticus Finch defended Tom Robinson in a fictionalized version of Monroeville, Alabama, and now things are once again heating up in the courthouse in the tiny southern Alabama town. This time the Monroe County’s Old Courthouse Museum is facing civil litigation from “To Kill a Mockingbird” …

It’s 610 feet long, makes 30 knots, can launch and recover two MH-60R Seahawk helicopters. It’s the new Zumwalt-class DDG-1000 destroyer, U.S. Navy’s biggest ever destroyer, and it just hit the water this week. Named after Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, a San Francisco native who was the youngest Chief of Naval Operations, the new destroyer is …

Hot stones not cutting it for you these days? Well, book a flight to Indonesia and head directly to Bali Heritage Reflexology, where they can hook you up with a python massage. The snake spa offers a unique massage treatment which involves having several pythons placed on the customers body. The movement of the snakes and …

By, Sandy Cohen, Associated Press 1. “Walk on the Wild Side,” 1972: “Shaved her legs and then he was a she; she says hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.” This trampy transvestite and her key catchphrase became part of pop culture. 2. “Sweet Jane (live),” 1974: Originally a Velvet Underground …

If you’ve been jonesing for a new Wes Anderson film since Moonrise Kingdom left theaters, you’ll probably want to watch this new trailer for Grand Budapest Hotel, slated to be released in the spring. P.S. It has quite the cast: Ralph Fiennes, Ed Norton, Willem Dafoe, Jude Law, Own Wilson, Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Tilda …